I can quote the findings of this report for you. In 2007, the Comité ZIP selected 120 fishers to harvest softshell clams, and they harvested 168,000. Some 80 harvesters were selected in 2008 and 60 in 2009. Harvesting took place in an area Fisheries and Oceans Canada described as contaminated, which had been closed. The harvesters were authorized to fish there. The findings showed that the area could be opened. That was west of Bonaventure, between Saint‑Siméon and Bonaventure.
That's the protected area where my friend Ghislain Roberge loves to harvest.